NEW CDC head director

Dr. Thomas Frieden, announced today, appointed by Obama. This is the overall head of CDC, not just the CFS division. He replaces Julie Gerberding. It would be good if there was some way to get him to re-focus the CFS research program at CDC.

The dept of health (Frieden was still the commissioner) was told about a new flu outbreak in NYC schools on 5/8 but they (dept. of health) refused to close the schools b/c they said that the flu was no longer a threat. Well now 11 schools will be closed on Monday, and an assistant principal has died from flu.
This is getting really scary, and I don't have a whole heck of a lot of hope for Frieden if this is how he deals w/ epidemics.

Sorry but I disagree-I think that if the head of the teachers union calls the dept. of health to tell them that a large # of faculty members and students are sick with the flu then they should investigate it-not ignore it for a week until a teacher is hospitalized. IMO the mayor/dept. of health did not want any more bad publicity b/c of the negative impact on tourism-in fact the mayor said that people should not be wearing surgical masks in public.

It seems like the govt's MO is always "ignore it and it will go away"-same as with CFS. It's incredibly frustrating.